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Let’s be honest. Most corporate training is terrible.

Not “could be improved” terrible. Proper terrible.

Endless slides. Robotic delivery. Zero energy. Half the room secretly checking emails while someone at the front reads bullet points that could have been sent in a PDF. By lunchtime, people are wondering whether a fake desk issue is a legitimate escape strategy.

And yet somehow, we.ve all just accepted this as normal.

We have not.

At Alumno Consulting, we deliver financial services training that people actually enjoy, remember, and use. Whether we are running analyst programmes, AI workshops, leadership sessions, or board-level consulting, our focus is simple: make learning stick.

Because here is the uncomfortable truth: most corporate training changes absolutely nothing. Research consistently shows that the majority of employees apply little, if any, of what they learn. Companies spend fortunes on “learning initiatives” only for delegates to forget most of it before they even reach the lift.

That is why our sessions are different. High energy. Highly interactive. Commercially relevant. Full of discussion, challenge, humour, practical application, and the kind of real-world insight that makes people sit forward instead of mentally planning dinner.

We do not just transfer information. We create moments people remember weeks, months, and years later.

Look at our reviews. Book a 30-minute Zoom call. Worst case, you get a more entertaining conversation than your average training session.

In the age of AI, information is a commodity; human connection is the true differentiator.

But how do we ensure that our conversations actually make the difference—and are not the reason behind our failures? How do we access continuous, comprehensive feedback so we no longer move forward blindly and can turn our blind spots into a strategic advantage? This becomes even more critical when bandwidth is limited and managers simply don’t have the time to analyze every interaction.

Luminous helps organizations transform their leaders from information sharers into trusted facilitators—whether externally with clients or internally with teams. Our platform delivers seamless, comprehensive feedback rooted in data-driven behavioural insights and powered by real-time AI coaching. So that, from now on, every conversation truly counts. Matthieu Cousi, CEO & Co-founder, Luminous

How we can support you:

• AI-Driven Conversational Intelligence

Luminous integrates seamlessly with your existing tools (Read.ai, Fireflies, Otter, etc.) to turn raw transcriptions into actionable coaching. By analyzing 100% of your interactions, we uncover the blind spots and behavioral patterns that manual reviews miss. Through a 20+ metric dashboard and personalized AI coaching, you can pinpoint the exact drivers of your conversational success and systematically level up your communication. Core Applications Sales: Master prospect discovery and client retention. Leadership: Improve team alignment and staff engagement. Hiring: Conduct more objective and insightful candidate interviews.

• Expert AI Coaching (24/7)

Access on-demand, AI-powered Sales and Leadership coaches embedding world-class frameworks to ensure effective, authentic, and confidential sessions. Gain instant, situational guidance and self-awareness to navigate complex negotiations or team dynamics, providing you with expert advice exactly when it matters most. On the job.

• AI Productivity Agents

Streamline your workflow with agents designed for high-performance output. From automated meeting prep and intelligent notes to a Storytelling Builder and Personality Profiling, these tools handle the cognitive heavy lifting so you can focus on the human connection.

• AI Learning & Development programs

Accelerate growth with specialized L&D programs. Choose from "on-the-shelf" modules or tailored paths organized by soft-skill frameworks, designed to turn conversational theory into lasting behavioral habits.

• AI Transformation & Scaling: From Ideation to Impact

Bridge the gap between AI curiosity and enterprise-wide impact with our proprietary transformation methodology. Moving you seamlessly from Ideation to PoC and global Scaling, we deploy a multi-stakeholder, multi-tactical approach centered on four strategic quadrants: we ignite the drive for evolution (Make me want to change), provide the blueprint for execution (Show me how), remove friction by integrating into existing workflows (Make it easier than the status quo), and ensure psychological and data security (Make it safe). This comprehensive framework replaces the "status quo" with a high-performance culture where AI-driven behavioral change is both seamless and sustainable.

• The Luminous Circle Community

Join an elite ecosystem of professionals. Our community hub offers open or private peer-to-peer networking, real-time chat, and regular "acculturation" content—keeping you at the forefront of business and leadership trends and communication best practices.

Square Mile Global Consulting is a London-headquartered financial training and consulting company with expertise in IFRS and IPSAS Financial Reporting Standards, and Sustainability Reporting. We equip finance and non-finance professionals with the knowledge and practical skills needed to implement and analyse new accounting standards, navigate complex financial reporting and disclosure requirements in an evolving global landscape.

Our expert-led courses, delivered both virtually and in-person, have supported professionals across the UK, Europe, North America, Middle East, Africa and South East Asia. We are proud to have worked with a diverse range of organizations, tailoring our delivery to suit different sectors, experience levels, and learning needs.

Some of the organizations we have worked with: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Barclays Bank, Cairn Energy, Central Bank of Nigeria, Council of Europe, Citibank, ENI, Ernst & Young, European University Institute (EUI), Financial Services Commission Anguilla, Fitch Ratings, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), HaysMac, HSBC, ICAEW, IMF, Kreston Global, Lloyds Bank, OECD, Saudi Aramco, Union Bank of India (UK) and WorldPay.

Our core training portfolio includes IFRS, IPSAS and Sustainability Reporting programs, all of which can be customized in content and duration to meet your specific requirements.

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

1) IFRS Refresher with ESG Reporting (including IFRS S1 and S2)

2) IFRS Updates

3) IFRS 9 Financial Instruments

4) IFRS 9 Derivatives and Hedge Accounting

5) IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers

6) IFRS 16 Leases

7) IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts

8) IFRS 18 Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements

9) IFRS for Banks and Financial Institutions

10) IFRS for Oil and Gas Companies

International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS)

1) IPSAS Refresher and Update

2) IPSAS Update (including IPSASB's SRS 1 Climate-related Disclosures)

3) IPSAS 43 Leases

4) IPSAS 45 Property, Plant and Equipment

5) IPSAS 46 Fair Value Measurement

6) IPSAS 47 Revenue and IPSAS 48 Transfer Expenses

7) IPSAS 41 Financial Instruments and IPSAS 30 Disclosures

8) IPSAS 33 First-time Adoption of Accruals Basis IPSAS

Sustainability/ESG Reporting

1) IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards (ISSB Standards - IFRS S1 and S2)

2) Mandatory EU requirements: EU Taxonomy and European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)

3) Overview of Sustainability/ESG Reporting Developments

4) Topic Specific Sustainability Reporting Course (e.g., biodiversity, pollution, workforce etc.)

5) IPSASB's Sustainability Reporting Standard (IPSASB SRS 1)

At Square Mile Global Consulting, we focus on interactive, outcome-driven learning. We will discuss your requirements to ensure the course is aligned with participant goals. Our sessions combine clear presentation of core concepts, interactive group discussions, excel-based financial illustrations, real-world case studies, regular summaries and mini-case exercises to reinforce learning.

Get in touch with Saket on saket@smglobal.co.uk to discuss how we can support your team's development.

The Negotiation Initiative focuses on enhancing negotiation skills through cultural intelligence, emphasizing the ability to navigate intellectual, emotional, and cultural differences. Their unique selling point is the integration of cross-cultural intellect with traditional negotiation training, providing pragmatic, data-reinforced frameworks. They offer short, focused training programs designed to improve strategic relationships and leadership skills in a global context.

Sytuate is the development platform that takes a different approach.

Using a multiple-choice format, managers explore relatable challenges which they face every day. Each one provides the practical insight they need to navigate the best outcome.

Accessible via mobile, managers can access development resources for as long or short a time as they wish and in a way which suits them whilst ensuring learning is constantly reinforced.

Every challenge that Sytuate resolves contributes to a better employee experience. Over time, this grows trust, boosting morale and increasing engagement.

We help you to overcome the issues of:

- training hard to reach managers

- improving front line productivity

- reducing absence & turnover

- increasing engagement through better conversations

Our pathways focus on the development of first and second line managers in core areas such as:

- Communication

- Absence Management

- Performance Management

- Delegation

- Manager Fundamentals

- Prevention of Harassment

- Improving self and team productivity.

Our unique subscription based platform is supported by group cohort coaching which enables users to experience reinforcement coaching in a safe environment. This coaching helps businesses to :

- Develop team capability

- Reinforce learning for better outcomes

- Build teams

- Help reduce operational silo's

In addition our platform management information will help you to provide data for compliance and quality audit purposes.

S-iBA Vision is a provider of turnkey training solutions.

We help customers to design customized training programs and deliver them in multiple languages around the world with less off-the-job time, wall-to-wall lover cost and without compromising on lasting impact and Return On Learning. The Swiss-based company with 20+ years experience offers traditional face-to-face and in-person trainings as well as innovative hybrid (blended) training solutions combining autonomous knowledge acquisition with the proprietary VIRTRACON™ app and trainer led face to face practice bootcamps to increase engagement, anchor the learnings and maximize the Return on Learning (ROL).

Methodology

Traditional training is no longer enough because "knowing how" is useless if it is not transferred into "showing how". Therefore, organizations need learning that is engaging, scalable, and truly transformative. With its Hybrid Learning Approach S-iBA has redefined the traditional learning process into two key phases. 1st: acquire and transfer the KNOW-HOW: this is done by our proprietary VR/AI app VIRTRACON™ who enables highly interactive self-paced learning independent of time, location and other people. 2nd: practice and anchor the SHOW-HOW: during online and face-to-face bootcamps we train intensively the learned concepts and tools with customized scenarios, provide feedback and help learners to transfer the acquired skills to the daily work. The result: measurable results and your employees don’t just learn - they experience.

Learning and Development

S-iBA has 25+ years experience in designing and delivering multilingual training worldwide. Based on our proprietary learning content and IP we co-design programs with our clients to support corporate learning initiatives, delivered through onsite and offsite training as well as workshops.

Leadership topics include:

• communication essentials for leaders and managers
• announce and lead change and transition
• empower individuals and teams
• situational leadership styles
• handle dysfunctional behavior
• manage tensions and conflicts
• communicate decisions and build trust
• balanced leadership
• develop your talents

Sales topics include:

• handle objections and pushbacks effectively
• communication essentials for sales people
• strategic selling
• value based selling
• consultative selling
• challenger sales
• defend our margin
• close the deal
• deal with competition
• success rate assessment
• lobbying & politics in business
• stakeholder management
• neuroscience in sales

Negotiation topics include:

• the art of negotiation
• deal with frustration
• negotiate win-win solution
• the negotiation matrix
• the T-concept
• the behavior scale
• negotiation strategies and tactics

High Performing Team development includes topics like:

• team culture: vision - mission - values & principles
• decision making in a team e.g. consensus vs. compromise
• Individual qualities and contributions e.g. DISC, core quality matrix, trust equation
• individual coaching

Brand Champion Bootcamp helps organisations build confident, credible communicators at scale.

Whether employees are presenting to customers, speaking to the media, appearing on podcasts, leading webinars, creating social content or representing the business at events, the quality of their communication has a direct impact on reputation, influence and trust.

Many organisations invest heavily in communication training for senior leaders and subject matter experts. The challenge is that learning fades over time, opportunities often arise unexpectedly, and it's rarely practical or cost-effective to bring in external trainers every time someone needs support.

Brand Champion Bootcamp was created to solve that problem.

Developed by communications specialist Rebecca Jabbar, the programme combines more than 25 years of experience training hundreds of senior leaders, founders, executives and corporate spokespeople with a flexible, on-demand learning platform that employees can access whenever they need it.

The programme helps organisations:

• Build communication capability consistently across teams and departments
• Support multiple spokespeople without relying solely on one-to-one coaching
• Reinforce learning long after a workshop or training session has finished
• Reduce communication risk as more employees engage with customers, media and online audiences
• Provide practical development opportunities in a scalable and cost-effective way

Unlike traditional training that may be forgotten over time, Brand Champion Bootcamp gives employees ongoing access to proven communication frameworks, practical tools and real-world guidance they can revisit before important meetings, presentations, media interviews and other high-visibility moments.

The programme can be licensed across teams or organisations and can also be customised with company branding, creating a trusted communication resource that supports both individual development and organisational consistency.

The result is greater confidence, stronger communication and better representation of your organisation whenever visibility, pressure and expectations increase.

The Kathryn Colas Academy helps organisations build healthier, more supportive workplaces through practical training and education.

Specialising in menopause and women’s health, the Academy deliver clear, accessible workshops and manager training that improve awareness, confidence, and communication across teams.

With a straightforward, no-nonsense approach, programmes are designed to create real impact — helping businesses better support their people, retain talent, and build inclusive workplace cultures.

Originally Europe’s first business psychology learning and development firm, helping to transform human performance at work. With over thirty years' experience of improving organisational, team and individual performance, we adapt our approach to ensure that what we do is relevant and works – using pioneering business psychology that unlocks human potential. Our approach is deliberately experiential and behaviour-focused rather than theoretical or academic and we focus on embedding learning into everyday practice.

We are trusted by global firms, evidenced by our track record of long-term client relationships and results. Our global team comprises highly experienced business psychologists, executive coaches and facilitators who combine rigorous psychological expertise with extensive practical experience of working in complex organisational environments. Insightful, forward-thinking and pragmatic, our team take a collaborative approach, working in partnership with clients to transform their organisations and elicit behavioural change. Our style is highly interactive and practice based.

R3 Leaders...

What does R3 stand for?

Helping leaders be resilient, resonate with others and deliver results. That was the idea, but it has morphed into...

What are we great at?

We do a brilliant job of 6 things:

1) building change capability in leaders.

2) measuring and enabling inclusive and psychologically safe workplaces

3) build people leadership skills

4) taking real teams from good to great

5) building innovation skills

6) building confidence and skill in AI usage

Our focus?

Our focus is on the real challenges that your people are trying to overcome.

We are helping them to solve real problems, take real opportunities, make better decisions in real life, communicate better with real people. So, we don't get lost in theory and we constantly bring them back to application.

We are dealing with real, adult, human beings, after all.

Who are we?

Founded by Rupert Hodges in 2015, we are a network of 20 highly skilled learning and performance consultants. All contact starts with Rupert, you can see his bio below.

Silmaril is an AI strategy and governance partner that helps organisations move beyond scattered “tactical AI” experiments and build AI that is secure, accountable, and measurably valuable. We work with leadership teams to get control of shadow AI, set clear guardrails, and design practical workflows that people actually adopt. Instead of throwing tools at problems, we map where AI can genuinely improve performance, design the processes and documentation to support it, and define the metrics that prove ROI. Through focused workshops, campaign-based support, and fractional Chief AI Officer services, Silmaril gives organisations a clear pathway for AI adoption, covering strategy, ethics, data retention, and applied use cases like bid writing and market insight. The result is AI that is not just clever, but trusted, repeatable, and aligned with the organisation’s goals.

Canva Training for Teams & Organisations

I’m Thea Newcomb, one of only 46 Canva Verified Experts worldwide and the first in Scotland. I help medium-sized and enterprise organisations use Canva confidently, consistently, and at scale - without brand chaos or wasted time.

I work with marketing and brand leaders who need Canva to support their brand, not quietly undermine it.

What I help teams achieve

• Consistent, on-brand design across teams
• Faster content creation without quality slipping
• Clear templates and guardrails people actually follow
• Fewer bottlenecks and less rework
• Confidence that Canva is being used properly

This isn’t Canva 101.

It’s structure, systems, and clarity.

How I work with businesses

I offer structured Canva training and enablement programmes for teams.

Each engagement is tailored and fixed-scope, based on your goals and setup.

This may include:

• Team training sessions
• Brand kits and approved templates
• Clear usage guidelines and workflows
• Pilot programmes to prove value before wider rollout
• No generic training. No off-the-shelf decks.

Who this is for

This is a good fit if you:

• manage a brand across multiple people or departments
• want Canva to speed things up, not create mess
• need training that sticks beyond the session
• value clarity, structure, and practical outcomes

If you’re looking for cheap templates or basic demos, I’m not the right fit.

Style & approach

Clients describe me as "fun" and my approach as sassy but classy. It's guaranteed to be engaging and human, and grounded in systems, structure, and real-world outcomes.

Teams leave with confidence, clarity, and a Canva setup that works long after training ends.

Next step

If you’re considering Canva training for your team, the best place to start is a short discovery conversation.

👉 Book a Canva Clarity call (link on profile)